Donald Trump has laid out four goals in Iran and said the US campaign had been projected to last four to five weeks but could “go far longer than that”. On Monday, the US president offered his most extensive comments yet about the war, going beyond two video messages and a series of brief phone interviews with reporters that offered sometimes conflicting objectives. That was a different justification than the one Trump’s secretary of state, Marco Rubio, gave later on Monday. “There was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians,” said Mark Warner, the Democratic vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the United States, then we are in uncharted territory.”Catching up?

Source: The Guardian March 03, 2026 17:01 UTC